Central Michigan Pulls Off Unreal, Zero-Second Hook and Ladder to Upset Oklahoma State

Oh, you may be forgetting which college football season this is. Did you actually expect No. 22 Oklahoma State to take down the unranked Central Michigan Chippewas? Sorry, friends. This is the tumultuous 2016 football season, where up is down, footballs throw you, and last second hook and ladders actually work from underdogs with the clock at zero seconds.

On an untimed down awarded to Central Michigan, QB Cooper Rush dropped back into the pocket and launched a ball to Jesse Kroll in deep, heavy coverage territory, and as Kroll was being tackled, he lateraled the ball to Corey Willis, who strafed the field and reached a desperate arm out to break the plane of the goal line. It was just a surreal sequence of events.

All kinds of crazy shit led to the setup of this play—and some folks are saying that it should never have happened at all. Basically, Oklahoma State had possession in the final four seconds of the fourth quarter and threw the ball away on third down. Everyone basically called the game over—including the commentators—but the refs saw otherwise. They ruled the ball as intentional grounding, and said that there was a loss of a down. Which is unequivocally correct.

But things got controversial about how they awarded an untimed down to Central Michigan. Fox rules man Mike Peirera said that the refs should not have given Central Michigan the untimed down. And it seems that a Mid-American Conference referee agreed with him.

Mid-American Conference referee says the Oklahoma State-Central Michigan game should not have been extended https://t.co/rfVW4IQG8j
— Berry Tramel (@BerryTramel) September 10, 2016

Here's OSU head coach Mike Gundy's take on the whole situation:

end the game."
— Kyle Fredrickson (@kylefredrickson) September 10, 2016

Gundy: If officials handled it incorrectly, it's still a dumb play on my part.
— Kyle Fredrickson (@kylefredrickson) September 10, 2016

It seems like the ruling is going to stand. This one is going to sting Gundy for a while. Just bonkers shit right there.

UPDATE:

And now the MAC has released an official statement saying that the referees indeed did make an error, and should not have permitted the game to go on. However, they say that the result remains.

MAC acknowledges mistake at end of CMU/OSU game. Final result still stands. pic.twitter.com/jhdGQXpSDK
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanDFischer) September 10, 2016

Woof.